{"id":24749,"date":"2017-03-30T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T18:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=24749"},"modified":"2017-03-26T13:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T18:42:02","slug":"herman-willard-zugwang-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=24749","title":{"rendered":"Herman, Willard – Zugwang?! #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zugwang?! #3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s a peek behind the curtain for the artists out there who have had books reviewed on this site: I usually forget what I wrote about the book pretty quickly. Not always, and not completely, but I review an awful lot of comics, and the specifics often fly right out of my brain in a hurry. Which can make things awkward at conventions when I’m asked questions about a past review, but I’m always willing to fess up about that fact. Why am I mentioning this? Because when I looked up Willard’s website, a review for a previous book of his came up right after his website, and it was from here, from a couple of years ago. Curious, I looked it up… and saw that I had basically cheated on it. The comic is question was so abstract that I just didn’t have a lot to say about it, so the review was one long stalling exercise. Well, that’s a cheat that I’m not going to use again. Granted, this comic is almost equally abstract, but there are a few stories in this one, not just the one wordless story that left me so little to go on. Stories in here include a truly terrifying number of stars, a story told without having a story (naturally, this one takes up the bulk of the comic), a man who is having a very difficult time finding the sun, and a monster trapped in a boat at sea. OK, I mostly guessed on the last one. There’s a lot to hurt your brain in this comic, but overall I liked it. That large story went on a bit longer than needed to get the point across, but it’s entirely possible that the excessive length was the point. It’s worth a look, is what I’m trying to say.<\/p>\n

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